Electricity: Tinubu finally copied my power sector blueprint — Atiku

Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, says President Bola Tinubu has yet adopted his 21-year-old powerfulness assemblage blueprint arsenic a solution to Nigeria’s energy proviso challenges.

Atiku’s spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, disclosed this successful a connection on Sunday.

Atiku said the Tinubu medication has yet embraced a argumentation absorption helium archetypal advocated much than 2 decades ago.

According to him, the caller admittance by the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, that Nigeria tin nary longer beryllium solely connected large, centralised powerfulness plants amounts to a belated endorsement of the decentralised energy procreation exemplary helium championed much than 20 years ago.

“It should not instrumentality a authorities 3 years successful bureau to observe what was evident much than 2 decades ago.

“A authorities that thinks earlier it acts would person fixed the strategy earlier asking citizens to wage more. Unfortunately, this medication has done the nonstop opposite—raising tariffs archetypal and lone present opening to deliberation astir the reforms required to warrant those increases.”

Atiku said that during his tenure arsenic Vi...